Ishtar (Easter) is around the corner. I do not celebrate Ishtar/Easter but do often like to indulge in the hot cross buns that are associated with Ishtar/Easter, so I took advantage of this and decided to play around with my own vegan version of the hot cross bun. It was also a great way to get the baking energy going in my new home, 2 weeks after moving in. Please excuse the photography, as I am still in the process of finding my feet in my new home so I somewhat eagerly took out the photos without checking back on it and of course the rest is history. To add to it, my new, old oven needs some getting used to and waiting for the landlord to sort out, which left my hot cross buns a tad burnt on the underside. The texture is on the dense side, which I have not even perfected yet in normal bread rolls. Leave the entire nitty-gritty aside and the proof is in the pudding. These tasted divine, though next time I will not be afraid of adding too much spice and all things nice.

The recipe (I adapted this recipe from a non-vegan recipe) did call for 1 teaspoon Mixed Spice I did not have Mixed Spice readily on hand when making this recipe so I just improvised the following.